On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:23:43PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > Sure, here's what I use for taking an image of a system. If you plan
> rsync -av --progress --delete-excluded --numeric-ids \ > --exclude=**/cdrom/* \ You delete only the excluded files? What about e.g. mail spool files that are backuped once and then deleted on the master systen? With "--delete" they will be deleted on the backup host, too. Also, if you (or the one asking :-)) cares for bandwith, a --compress might be useful. And maybe --bwlimit=xxx if there's other activity on the net. Regarding the other comment suggesting tar: We use a combination: rsync to gather the data on a backup host (low bandwidth) and tar (with -g incremental) to copy them from there to external USB hard drive medias. bye, -christian-
